Means for fixing artificial hair dress on natural hair



' 1,627,469 May 1927' E. SYPTROTH MEANS FOR, FIXING ARTIFICIAL HAIR DRESS ON NATURAL HAIR Filed Dec, 21, 1925 Patented May 3, 1 927.

UNITED STATES 1,627,469- PATENT OFFICE.

EMIL SYPTROTH, or scHwAB-GMUNn, GERMAN QASS IGI IOR ro GUST SATTLER, or

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, MEANS FOR rixmennr riomr. nnrnnn ess 01v NATURAL I-VIAIAR.

" Applicationfiled December 21,1925, Serial 110176374, and in German October 1 0, 19 25.

The common technics of artificial hair dress use, for fixing dressed artificial hair on the natural hair, essentially buckles, pins, clasps and the like.' The fixing means are 5 useful and sufficient if the dressed artificial hair has to be attachedto long and thick hair, as in this case the natural hair offers a sufiiciently solid hold for the fixing means. It is however even in this case necessary to attach the dressed artificial hair very carefully and to use attaching means which are of practical shape in order to avoid that they are conspicuous or liable to get loose as otherwise the artificial hair dress might get in disorder or be lost. If the natural hair is short, as is the case with bobbed hair, the fixing means of known type are not reliable and it is impossible to attach the artificial hair dress so that it is not conspicu- 29 ous.

The invention provides a means for attaching artificial hair dress on long or short hair in an absolutely reliable and inconspicuous manner. The fixing means consists 95 essentially of a wire spiral made from very thin steel wire, of low pitch and short diameter. The pitch of the spiral is so little that the successive turns of the spiral are close together when ths spiral is not under 30 tension.

An embodiment of the invention is shown, by way of example, in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a human head with which the fastening device embodying the invention is used to secure the hair dress in place on short hair, a portion of the hair dress being broken away,

Figure 2 is an elevation of the improved fastening device, and

Figure 3 is a fragmentary elevation of a portion of the improved fastening device on an enlarged scale with the convolutions thereof extended or drawn apart.

The spiral fastening device is made of steel wire or of any other suitable material, eyes 2 at each end serving as handles and for attaching the artificial hair dress. These eyes are formed by bending the ends'of the spiral fastening device to form loops, the

free ends being securely held in their bent positions by clips 3 of celluloid, metal or the like. The eyes might also be made as separate elements fixed to the ends of the spiral in any convenient manner. The turns of the spiral are close together when the spiral is at the normal state.- 1

The artificial l1air"dre ss, asat 4 in Fig. 1,

is attached to the ends of the spiral where-- upon the spiral is slightly stretched so that .the turns of the spiral separate from one another. The spiral is then placed on the part of the head 5 on which the artificial hair is to be attached and pressed onto the hair, being slightly pushed towards the roots of the hair, so that the natural hair, even if it is quite short, penetrates between the turns of the spiral and is securely clamped between the same as soon as the handles or ends of the spiral are released. The spiral is thus securely attached to the hair and the artificial hair fixed on the same cannot get loose nor be lost. The wire spiral might be first attached to the natural hair and the artificial hair fixed on the spiral subsequently.

In the wig-making industry wire spirals have been used which are known as elastics but they are used for a quite different purpose and in a different arrangement.

I claim 1. Means for securing an artificial hair dress on natural hair comprising a spiral fastening member having convolutions of slight pitch, adjacent convolutions being adapted to clamp natural hair therebetween, said fastenin member being adapted to support the artificial hair dress.

2. Means for securing an artificial hair dress on natural hair comprising a fastening member formed of spring steel bent to spiral form, the convolutions of said fastening member being of slight pitch, adjacent convolutions being adapted to clamp natural hair therebetween, and means at the ends of the spiral fastening member constituting handles for the spiral fastening member.

3. Means for securing an artificial hair dress on natural hair comprising a fastening member formed of spring steel bent to spiral form, the convolutions of said fastening member being of slight pitch, adjacent convolutions being adapted to clamp natural hair therebetween, and means at the ends of the spiral fastening member constituting handles for the spiral fastening member, and also attaching elements for the iartificial hair dress.

4. Means for securing an artificial hair dress on natural hair comprising a flexible spiral fasteningmember made of material having considerable resiliency, the; convolutions of said spiral fastening member being of slight pitch, adjacent convolutions be'ing adapted to clampnatural hair thcrebetween,

dnesson natural hair comprisinga flexible spiral fastening memberunade of material having considerable resiliency, ethe convolutions 01' said spiral tastenang member-being of "slight pitch, adjacent convolutions be- 15 adapted to clamp natural glia irtherebetween, and eye members at the ends of the spiral fastening member constituting handles for tl'1espi-1 a1 t-astening member and supporting members for the artificial hair dress said eyes comprising end portions of "the spiral fastening member-"bent substan- -tially toloop :Eornn and clips retaining the end portions of the spiral fastening member In. testimonywhereof I .afiix my signature.

EMIL. SYPTROTl-I. 

